Breaking through the intermediate wall in elisp / lisps in general

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  • helpful

    A better Emacs *help* buffer

  • Edebug is your good friend :). When you are curious about a function and don't really understand it, you can step through it with the debugger, eval variables, look up docs for the functions called, C-h f and C-h v for variables. Those are available immediately in your Emacs, and just a keystroke away. I recommend installing helpful and use it at least for a while instead of standard help or in combination. I used it a lot in the beginning. It will show you the source code for a function/macro and it will also show you property list for symbols by default, so when you are learning and discovering it is really good to have those. I think I have learned more about Emacs lisp from helpful than anything else, by just seeing the code and what things do directly.

  • emacs-buddy

    Emacs Buddy initiative to help new Emacs users with their struggles

  • you can also cross pollinate with others: checkout https://github.com/ag91/emacs-buddy ;)

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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